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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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An automated healthcare agent that processes a routine prescription refill can’t afford to hallucinate so much as a single digit in a prescription number, lest the patient receive an incorrect medication with potentially harmful effects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

But new research suggests there may be a more concerning issue emerging: humans can begin to "hallucinate with AI."

From Science Daily May 11, 2026

As they do, however, experts have warned their potential to make things up - or "hallucinate" as the industry describes it - could intensify.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

“I didn’t hallucinate all of that? And—and you saw everything, too?”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Google said Gemini hallucinates less than other models and that it is working to improve it.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

"This means that visual information about things happening in the outside world becomes less accessible to our consciousness. To fill this gap in the puzzle, our brain inserts fragments from memory -- it hallucinates."

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2026

What good is AI that analyzes financial data if it hallucinates numbers?

From MarketWatch Nov. 3, 2025

The puppeteer even hallucinates seeing Eric standing next to him, wisecracking and poking holes in his ego - because "puppets say the things we can't".

From BBC May 26, 2024

As she puts tomatoes into boxes, she hallucinates that she is slicing open a juicy one and sprinkling it with salt.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

The agents also hallucinated reams of incoherent commands and text and were sloppy and did not cover their tracks well.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

It hallucinated citations and got facts wrong, and you risked looking like a fool in front of a professor for trusting it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

"Many of these manipulated images have the hallmarks of imperfect AI-generation: odd angles, blurred details, and hallucinated features that don't align with reality," Africk told AFP.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

But they say other types of irregular speech, such as audio from the elderly or nonnative language speakers, could also result in hallucinated text.

From Science Magazine Apr. 26, 2024

In that state of hallucinated lucidity, not only did they see the images of their own dreams, but some saw the images dreamed by others.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When generative AI systems give incorrect answers, people often describe the problem as AI "hallucinating at us," meaning the technology produces false information that users may mistakenly believe.

From Science Daily May 11, 2026

"This risk of a model making errors or hallucinating cannot be fully avoided in any technical way," said Munich Re's head of AI insurance, Michael von Gablenz.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

But AI large language models can make mistakes, or even make things up - known as "hallucinating".

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

A hallucinating encyclopedia may not be exactly what you’re looking for when you’re doing research, but that’s what writer Stephen Harrison found when he dug into Elon Musk’s new A.I.-powered Grokipedia.

From Slate Nov. 17, 2025

He must be hallucinating, creating pleasant images to distract himself from the inevitable.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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